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A nice recruiter letter
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| Hi Kyle, | |
| My name is Tammy and I am on the team at Riviera Partners. Your name surfaced | |
| in several of my searches today and across various filters - from distributed | |
| systems to Clojure and encompassing Ruby and JavaScript. Well-rounded | |
| individual, are we? I also heard from a former colleague of mine that your | |
| programming began at the tender age of 2.... impressive! I just signed up for | |
| CodeAcademy - should be interesting! | |
| I am not sure how things are going for you at Boundary (are you still there)? | |
| but I am currently building out a YC-backed startup that is looking to disrupt | |
| the cloud based storage space - AeroFS, have you heard of them? They are | |
| building their own distributed file system that allows for P2P syncing and are | |
| providing an alternative for users who cannot use Dropbox/Box because of file | |
| storage in external third party servers. Data stays behind the user's firewall, | |
| but is carefully transmitted with end-to-end data encryption through the | |
| punctured firewall. Having done a cursory read of your blog, you have a true | |
| understanding of the architecture of secure transmission, and I'd love to speak | |
| with you about the opportunities they have, and others I am working on. | |
| Look forward to hearing from you Kyle! |
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Specific thoughts: Yeah, this is flattery. No, I didn't start at age 2, and it wouldn't really matter if I had: it takes some time to get good at anything, but you can start at any time in your life.
What I like about this letter is that they took the time to read about what problems I'm interested in, what languages I'm familiar with and enjoy, and described a technical problem that I find really interesting in concrete terms. Moreover, this person is learning to code; not that it's a critical skill, but I think learning a little programming helps you understand what programmers do.
They didn't, like most recruiters, mis-spell the name of the company, refuse to understand how the company's technology works, refuse to disclose any information about the job at all, or offer me a position I was clearly unsuited for or uninterested in. Instead, she put real work into understanding the company, the problem, and what I do; and that's exactly what I want to see more of from recruiters.